Robert P. Jones writes for The Atlantic, Oct. 17, 2014:
Over the last few decades, there have been few more reliable voters for Republicans than white evangelical Protestants. This year, however, GOP candidates may be getting less help from this group—not because white evangelical Protestantsare becoming less supportive or less motivated, but simply because they are declining as a proportion of the population, even in Southern states.
White evangelical Protestants have remained a steadfast Republican constituency in both presidential and midterm congressional elections ever since the Reagan presidency, which marked what political scientists Merle and Earl Black dubbed “the great white switch.” In 2008 and 2012, roughly three-quarters of white born-again Christians supported GOP nominees John McCain (73 percent) and Mitt Romney (78 percent). In the 2010 midterm election, similar numbers of white born-again Christians (77 percent) supported the GOP House candidate in their districts.
[…] In recent years, for example, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest evangelical denomination in the country, has reported steady declines in membership and new baptisms. Since 2007, the number of white evangelical Protestants nationwide has slipped from22 percentin 2007 to18 percenttoday.
A look at generational differences demonstrates that this is only the beginnings of a major shift away from a robust white evangelical presence and influence in the country. While white evangelical Protestants constitute roughly three in 10 (29 percent) seniors (age 65 and older), they account for only one in 10 (10 percent) members of the Millennial generation (age 18-29). In the last few national elections, however, because of high levels of voter turnout, white evangelical Protestants have managed to maintain an outsized presence at the ballot box according to national exit polls, representing roughly one-quarter of voters.
[…] there are currently five Southern states—Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and North Carolina— wherepolling shows that the Senate race margins are less than five percentage points indicates that 2014 may be the year that the underlying demographic trends finally exert enough force to make themselves felt. These changes are evident in analysis based on the American Values Atlas, a massive interactive online map of demographic and religious diversity in America based on 45,000 interviews conducted throughout 2013, created by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Social Science Research Solutions.
[…] Two forces account for the declining proportions of white evangelical and mainline Protestants: the growth of non-black ethnic minorities and, perhaps surprisingly, the growth of the religiously unaffiliated across the South.Notably, each of these growing constituencies leans decidedly toward Democratic candidates.
[…] So what does this mean for the 2014 elections? Certainly, events on the ground are still paramount; the campaign machines and peculiarities of candidates matter. And in low-turnout elections such as the midterms, the real weight of these demographic and religious shifts will not yet be fully felt at the ballot box. White evangelical Protestants have a strong turnout record, while non-black ethnic minorities and particularly the religiously unaffiliated are much less likely to vote. PRRI’s pre-election American Values Survey found that while two-thirds (65 percent) of white evangelical Protestants report that they were absolutely certain to vote in the November elections, less than half (45 percent) of the religiously unaffiliated report this kind of certainty. But the underlying trends indicate that at least one reason why there are a number of close elections across the South is the declining dominance of white evangelical Protestants, the most stalwart of GOP supporters.Do you get the feeling that we’re losing the Culture War? 🙁~Eowyn

I think prosperity gospel preachers (motivational speakers with a bible) and mega-churches also account for the decline. These spiritual fish oil salesmen are basically reaching into people’s pockets while telling them feel good stories from the bible, never mentioning repentance, only God loves them, and calling themselves “Christian”. It’s smoke in screen…people want so badly to feel good and have that pat on the head that they will believe anything if it sounds good. They will reject truth for falsehoods to find false glory from a false preacher.

When demographics change beyond a certain point, revolution follows because the society changes. Things don’t look good for America or Europe. Margaret Sanger’s birth control crusade was a diabolical fraud from the beginning: She wanted to curb minority populations, so she said; Instead, the upwardly mobile white middle class embraced it. And this was followed by The Pill.
The Culture Wars were lost by design on a number of fronts. The Sexual Revolution was a crucial factor, confirmed by legalized abortion. The Presidents Bush also worked behind the scenes to further destabilize things with their policies. And the American public largely went along with it.
But I believe that the Prime Cause of our devolution has been the infiltration of the Catholic Church by Illuminati Freemasonry with the election of John XXIII in 1958. This fulfilled Adam Weishaupt’s threat of 1775: “We shall infiltrate the Church of Rome. Once inside we shall never leave. We shall eat out her substance until there is nothing left but an empty shell.” Communists and high-level Masons admitted—over 100 years ago—that the Roman Catholic Church was their Obstacle # 1 to taking over the world. Well, it’s all documented history now, and thanks to the internet and people who want the truth, it’s no longer under the radar.

Reblogged this on The Political Chef™ Blog and commented:
IF Evangelicals are dwindling in the South it is only perhaps because we are being infested/infected by godless Northern leftists, who leave the places they hate (because they’ve infected those places into disrepair and failure) to then come to the South to “remake” & “recreate” the mess they left up North…please, all Northerners who want to move to paradise and make it into the Northern hell, please go home…Thank you.

When the ‘Church’ became man-pleasers, agent of the progressive super state; it was the same time Christ Crucified, died, buried and risen, Sin-repentance, Heaven and Hell were no longer preached from the pulpit, Amerika died.